Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4

... completely free to pursue your own desires and goals. You can leave right now, go wherever and do whatever your heart tells you, and I’ll wish you luck, but in order to rescue your loved ones, the Profane must be stopped, and this room right here is where the fight is happening. I need your help and you need mine, so, what’s it going to be?”

Shannon bowed her head. “I’ll help you.”

“Good. Now tell me, what do you know about alchemy?”

From then on, Noah and Shannon worked together in that room. Shannon helped perform all of Noah’s alchemy and ran any errands he had, such as gathering materials and passing messages. She had come a long way from weaving blankets in a yurt on the plains, but Noah was kind to her, and routine and repetition extinguished the anxious flames of confusion. She didn’t have Sophia’s thirst for knowledge, but she made a good assistant.

At noon on the first day, they stopped to eat. They went down to the great hall, where soldiers and other Uther workers dined on bread and stew. Though Noah dove in, Shannon was hesitant.

“Is it really ok for me to eat this?”

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

“I keep thinking back to everyone from my tribe, and I wonder what they are going through. For all I know, they could be locked in cages, forced to eat rats and sleep in filth. And here I am, safe in the castle, eating good food and sleeping in a warm bed.”

“Punishing yourself won’t help them. You’re not obligated to suffer and be miserable just because ...

... they are. You want to save your tribe, right? What do you think you can accomplish by depriving yourself of food and rest? You need to take care of yourself, gather your strength and focus your mind, otherwise, you’ll be too weak to do anything.”

“I just wish I knew what was happening to them.”

“They probably wish to know what’s happening to you. However, I’m sure they’re thinking to themselves, ‘at least Shannon got away.’ If they could see you now, do you think they’d want to find you starving in a gutter, just as miserable as them? Or would they want to see you safe, healthy, and working hard to save them?”

“I understand,” she said, trading her somber mood for a small smile.

“Good, then eat up, because we have a lot of work ahead of us.”

Noah was true to his words, and they labored in the evidence room for several days. The main goal was to recreate the labs where the evidence had been gathered, putting the pieces together like assembling a puzzle. First, they had to be repaired, using alchemy to merge broken pieces back together like fusing ice cubes, with Noah writing in missing runes to solve what was perhaps the most difficult Sudoku puzzle he had ever faced.

Other pieces had to be rebuilt entirely from the ground up. Once mended, they slid and screwed together in grooves, locked and snapped into place, and were even linked together by cords, not unlike wires. When not busy with her assigned tasks, Shannon often stopped to look over and see what Noah ...